This Week’s Playbook. Summer means a backyard worth more than amusement park, a weekend that hasn't felt like a weekend since spring, and a kid who can't stop sizing themselves up against one rival. We've got moves for all of it.
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PARENTS’ CORNER
10 Backyard Games That Make Summer Feel Like Summer Again
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The first warm Saturday shows up and nobody knows what to do with it.
The good stuff doesn't need a sign-up sheet.
It needs a backyard, bare feet, and someone yelling "redo!"
We rounded up 10 games that make a regular Saturday feel like summer again.
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TOOLS FOR YOUR ATHLETE
How to Make Weekends Feel Like Weekends Again During Sports Season
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Sunday morning. Hotel that smells like chlorine. Sibling on a tablet.
Game two starts in ninety minutes and nobody's eaten a real breakfast in weeks.
The weekend stopped feeling like a weekend somewhere around the third tournament.
We round up five small rituals (and the cheap tools that make them stick) for clawing it back.
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